Songs on Perpetuum Mobile use tapped pipes and air compressors, but the long droning notes of background for a foreground of noise have given way to more prominent melodies and notes on keyboard and strings.

For their third album Filter has decided to flex their muscle to be in sync with today's trends. As a result, The Amalgamut is an untidy and hardly homogeneous effort that cruelly lacks spontaneity while the melodious songs are drowned in an indigestible racket.

Though The Mission reached the summit of their art with Carved in Sand in 1990, the band had since sunk into oblivion, after a fistful of uninspired albums and the successive departures of its original members. Returning to the sources of their gothic and lyrical rock, with Aura Wayne Hussey signals a long-awaited comeback album.